Inheritance
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005RR58MG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Tim Miller, author of Body Blows and 1001 Beds. This impressive and soulful collection displays a queer poetics so precise and deft it leaves the reader almost singed by how close to the mark the words flare. Steven Reigns explores the inexhaustible power of family to affect our lives and loves, and does so in a candid yet passionate manner remarkable for its evocative and wounding moments. --Wanda Coleman, author of Heavy Daughter Blues and Mercurochrome: New PoemsSteven Reigns' Inheritance sizzles with the unsparing heat of memory
Steven Reigns's poetry and fiction create an emotional landscape few writers explore. The writings are an open expedition into our feelings and senses. An out gay activist and survivor of abuse, Reigns has taught creative writing workshops around the country to gay youth groups and people living with AIDS. In his debut collection, Your Dead Body Is My Welcome Mat, Reigns confronted abuses of power and living li
"Powerful!" according to Juliette Aiyana. Steven Reigns does it again, but even more authentically, and more raw in his new title, Inheritance. Don't read this fantastic book of poems if you don't want your world rocked. Reigns will get you to see through his eyes, and he will get you to feel through his heart. He writes about what he has inherite. Transformative Poetry at its Best - A Fantastic Collection by Steven Reigns I've long argued that a good poem is like a photograph, capturing a moment in time, an expression on a beloved's face we want to remember, or perhaps a hairstyle or an ex-lover that maybe we'd like to forget. Reading Steven Reign's Inheritance (Lethe Press, 2010) is like looking through a photo album. In s. Grady Harp said 'Silence only protects predators.'. Reading Steven Reigns' unflinchingly real poems is a reminder of one of the core aspects of poetry: observe or experience, withdraw for perspective, condense and distill, and place with polished craft on a page. In his collection of poems, INHERITANCE, he has done just that, though these poems cover a peri
LGBT Studies. To read his book is to meet a man alert to his times and the textures of the lives around him, a community observed with tenderness, wit and pleasure.". As Mark Doty says: "Steven Reigns's graceful, plainspoken lyrics describe the shape of one gay life at the beginning of this new century, a time of uncertainty, transformation, and hope. The autobiographical poems of Steven Reigns's INHERITANCE introduce us to the gains and losses of a true American family and detail the bequests of the shadows that linger. Poetry. Reigns glosses over nothing to reveal the secrets that turn suburbia into a coming-of-age battlefield